If you’ve read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, you know one of the biggest challenges for writer-director Gavin Hood was bringing the Battle Room to life. When Ender (Asa Butterfield) is recruited by the International Fleet, he’s sent into space to Battle School to learn how to defend the planet against the Formics, an alien race that nearly decimated humanity and is expected to return. While there are classes in Battle School, the central element of the curriculum is actually a game. While on the film’s Nasa Michoud Assembly Facility set in New Orleans, producer Linda McDonough explained, “They have two different 'gates.' They accumulate points by hitting each other with these lasers. The lasers don’t injure you; they freeze parts...

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